Wichita eagle., 1887-06-24
KANSAS PLUMAGE.

Il KANSAS PLUMAGE.
Six of the State Normal graduates were
given positions in the Topeka public
schools.
Five hundred men and one hundred
teams are engaged in paving Kansas ave
nue. at Topeka.
The Winfield board Of education has
added vocal music to the course of instruc-
ton of the city schools of that town.
| Of the $50 students who entered the ag
ricultural college at Manhattan this year,
1862 are reported the children of farmers.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Uni on will celebrate the 4th of July al
Clay Center. Mrs Saxon will be present
The Rock Island will commence, Sep
te mber the 1st, to run three passenger
trains daily between Kansas City and To
peka
At Newton, Tuesday morning, Rt. Rev.
L. NJ. Fink, the bishop, administered the
sacrament of confirmation to forty per
sons.
Gov. Martin will respond to the toast,
kansas During the War" at the coming
meeting of the Loyal Legion to be held al
Lawrence on the Oath inst.
The initial number of the Kinsley Daily
Mercury is out. 1t is bright sheet, pub
lished by Brandon Bros. & Hebron and one
of which Kinsley should feel proud.
On and after July there will be mail
service on the Chicago, Kansas & Nebras
ka from st. Joseph to Alma, Kansas, and
from Horton, Kansas, to Ncra, Nebraska.
S o rigidly, it is said, is the Sunday law
enforced in Olathe, that one cannot hire a
bu ggy, buy cigar or newspaper in the
corporate limits of the city on Sunday.
The Catholic society of Clyde is taking
steps to erect convent school building,
the cost to be about $1,000. 1t will be To-
Gated near the present Catholic church.
Those who are working for the school are
quite sanguine that they will be successful.
The council of Topeka proposes to pass
an ordinance regulating the width Of tires
on dray and express wagons and other We
hicles devoted to heavy hauling, the object
being to protect the asphalt paving from
being cut up by narrow tires.
The Kansas penitentiary now has almost
900 convicts within its walls. The ex-
pense of management during the last month
has been $4,000 greater than the earnings
of the prison. The total expenditures for
MAY were almost $4,000, which is about
$12. 25 per person.
A pleasure steamer, "The Bell of the
Walnut" was launched at Arkansas City,
Tuesday morning. This is the first boat
of its kind launched at Arkansas City, and
will be run up and down the Walnut,
making its first excursion July 1st.
The Fort Scott petroleum is said to be
the heaviest carboniferous oil in the coun-
try. except some very shallow wells in
Eastern Ohio and Southern West Virginia.
A sample Of 1t will be sent to the Univer-
sity at Bologna, which will celebrate its
S0Oth anniversary next year.
The attorney Of Sumner county pub
fishes notice inviting any one having
kno wledge of the intoxicating qualities of
the article sold under the name of malt, to
put him in possession of such information
and says he will cheerfully institute a pros
ecution upon those engaged in selling such.
The largest apple orchard in the United
States is claimed by Paramount, in Leaven-
worth county, Kansas 1t contains 437
acres and is composed Of $4,000 trees of
the following varieties: Seventy acres of
Winesaps, 24o acres of Ben Davis. 20 acres
of Missouri Pippins. 40 acres of Genitans,
8 acres of Cooper's Early and 8 acres of
Maiden's Blush. Last years crop is es-
timated at 40, 900 bushels.
The American people as rule are very
excitable-not tickle, like the French
but possessing that excitability which is an
essential part Of rapid advancement No
better illustration of this than Kansas af
fords may be found. While the larger
cities are occupied with their respective
boo ms, some of the smaller towns keep
their citizens interests from tagging by
aspiring to the places held by their more
prosperous. neighbors, while away out In
the border counties an incessant struggle,
as it seems, is in progress over the posses
sion Of the county seats. Five of the bor-
der counties are now contesting for the
county seats, one of which claims that
another has imported 200 tramps Tor the
express purpose of voting them. While
the fraudulent purpose for which they
have been imported should not be ap-
pr owed, yet It pleases one much to know
that at least 200. Of that rsgamutfin crowd
are Gagged in for the summer by the waving
prairies.
NEW MEXICO.